Chittagong City Corporation, the police and Chittagong district administration on Tuesday jointly evicted a vegetable market built illegally encroaching local canal in Amin Jute Mill area under Bayezid police station.
Led by executive magistrate Tamim Al Yamin, the eviction drive was conducted for two hours from 11:00am.
Officials who evicted the market said that the
market, with 60 different structures, was built illegally and had long been using the canal side and filled the canal throwing garbage, causing water logging in adjacent areas even in a little rain.
The Chittagong district administration also evicted 150 families from the hazardous hill site on Monday, a day after a landslide killed three children in the same area.
Those families had been living there illegally on land owned by the Amin Jute Mills, the officials said.
The families, evicted in Monday’s daylong drive, were temporarily relocated to Amin Jute Mills School and Madrasa premises and were being providing food by the administration, officials said.
More than 200 people were killed in landslides in Chittagong in the last eight years. A devastating landslide in Chittagong on June 11, 2007 claimed the lives of 127 people.
Since then, the local administration regularly evicts families living in the risky zones but they return after the drives.
Lately, the district administration began the eviction drive in the second week of June but suspended it during Ramadan.
Source: New Age
